R C SHERRIFF: Journey's End Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing.

1. (a)Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it: Stanhope: Give me that letter! Raleigh [astonished]: But – Dennis Stanhope [trembling]: Give me that letter! Raleigh: But it's - it's private. I didn't know – Stanhope: D'you understand an order? Give me that letter! Raleigh: But I tell you – there's nothing [STANHOPE clutches RALEIGH's wrist and tears the letter from his hand.] Dennis - I'm – Stanhope: Don't 'Dennis' me! Stanhope's my name! You're not at school! Go and inspect your rifles! [RALEIGH stands in amazement at the foot of the steps.] Stanhope [shouting]: D'you understand an order? [For a moment RALEIGH stares wide-eyed at STANHOPE, who is trembling and breathing heavily, then almost in a whisper he says: 'Right', and goes quietly up the narrow steps. STANHOPE turns towards the table.] Osborne: Good heavens, Stanhope! Stanhope [wheeling furiously on OSBORNE]: Look here, Osborne, I'm commanding this company. I ask for advice when I want it! Osborne: Very well. [STANHOPE sinks down at the table with the letter in his hand. There is silence for a moment. Then he throws the letter on the table and rests his head between his hands.] Stanhope: Oh, God! I don't want to read the blasted thing! Osborne: You'll let it go, then? Stanhope: I don't care. [There is a pause.] Osborne: Shall I glance through it – for you? Stanhope: If you like. Osborne: I don't want to. Stanhope: You better. I can't. [OSBORNE takes the letter from the table and opens it. STANHOPE sits with his head in his hand, digging a magazine with a pencil. After a while, OSBORNE glances up at STANHOPE.] Osborne: D'you want to hear? Stanhope: I suppose I better know. Osborne: He begins with a description of his getting here - he doesn't mention the names of any places. Stanhope: What does he say then? Osborne: The last piece is about you. Stanhope: Go on. Osborne [reading]: He says: 'And now I come to the great news. I reported at Battalion Headquarters, and the colonel looked in a little book, and said, “You report to C Company – Captain Stanhope." Can't you imagine what I felt? I was taken along some trenches and shown a dugout. There was an awfully nice officer there - quite old – with grey hair' – [OSBORNE clears his throat] - 'and then later Dennis came in. He looked tired, but that's because he works so frightfully hard, and because of the responsibility. Then I went on duty in the front line, and a sergeant told me all about Dennis. He said that Dennis is the finest officer in the battalion, and the men simply love him. He hardly ever sleeps in the dugout; he's always up in the front line with the men, cheering them on with jokes, and making them keen about things, like he did the kids at school. I'm awfully proud to think he's my friend.' [There is silence. STANHOPE has not moved while OSBORNE has read.] That's all. [Pause.] Shall I stick it down? [STANHOPE sits with lowered head. He murmurs something that sounds like 'Yes, please.' He rises heavily and crosses to the shadows by OSBORNE's bed. The sun is shining quite brightly in the trench outside.] (from Act 2, Scene 1) How does Sherriff powerfully portray Stanhope's emotions at this moment in the play?[25]
2. (b)How does Sherriff's portrayal of Hibbert make you feel about him?[25]